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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I used to feel that way, but my attitudes changed over the years.
One of the things I began to do was replace PBs with durable hardback reading copies. I was aided in this because my preferred genre is SF, and the Science Fiction Book Club tended to create hardcover anthology editions of books that had been paperback series. I actually reduced storage space in some cases. (The SFBC also published some where the SFBC edition was the only hardcover edition, making them collectibles.)
Part of the motive was declining paperback quality. I had book where the paper was beginning to turn brown and crumple, and where the glue folding on the cover was failing due to gae, and the book was literally falling apart.
I buy books to keep, and want books I can keep.
You would still have to wait. There is a year between hardback and paperback release, precisely to give the hardback time to sell. Getting a paperback+ebook bundle would of necessity include that wait.
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Dennis
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Since these are "special editions" hardcovers ( i love omnibus editions) I second your opinion.
Funny enough here in germany such omnibus editions appear often enough in pback:
the original Conan stories, gibsons neuromancer trilogy, asimovs foundation trilogy, harrisons deathworlds, leGuins earthsea, just to name some i personally have.
but i was not speaking about such special HC editions (which clearly do not exist universally) I spoke about the average 1st print done HC edition.
One can be kucky if they have double the mass of the later coming pback, sometimes it is 3-4 times as much. A waste of shelfspace and my poor back for carrying.
that s why i said i'd rather pay more for a pback+ebook attached (drm-free of course) than to wait the year as long as they are selling the leadbricks.
ah btw. the SFBC you spoke of - they don't have a stainless steel rat omnibus do they?